I truly appreciate your efforts in writing Born In The USA. Your idea on the American Healthcare System that have put women in a hypnotizing, and cultural trend that is corrupt.giving women the inability to see their alternatives and make their own choices on when, who or where they have birth. what your adressing in your book really moved me, and this is because something that might seem so little like a child being born in a hospital is shown to be a bad thing. you put the normal tendencies of our society, and in this case birth in a hospital off a pedestal and present its falts.
in the last third of your book, i feel you recapped and effectively presented the reader with solutions to their broken maternity system. you covered a ten step process that in fixing this hospital birth trend, for instance using advocacy to aware the public and science to prove the effectiveness of home births. this part was very effective and really made what was read before much more powerful. giving a solution to the number of problems, not vaguely but specifically.
But let me be more specific. these were the three main ideas that really caught my attention in the final third of the book.
1. Educating the public about the abuses of our maternity care system. we are not informed and their for shying away from humanizing our birth.(pg.220)
2. lastly, tackling the importance of taking political action. Against insurance companies who are rather against us than for us. their greediness and incentive for money over powering their actual care and worry's of patient.(pg.228)
3.Your budget breakdown of the spending on American healthcare, spending on obstetrician which is double compared to a mid-wive. the main incentive is profit and its easily seen in how obstetrician and hospitals take care of things. whats more important, money or the health of a women and her baby? answer is quite obvious(pg.243,244)
The main purpose of your book was to inform the public of the faults of our maternity care system. when it comes to making your book better, it doesn't really tackle the physiological battle that women face. their=r own voice and experiences can make this book very strong than it already is. Let it be clear - your text used a lot of stories and statistical data the empowers each of your arguments. Given that aim, and your book, the best advice I would give for a 2nd edition of the text would be, more emotion. even though the stories of the women are their, their voice should be included. maybe they can even give a positive experience of giving birth in the hospital.But I don't want you to feel like I'm criticizing. I appreciate the immense amount of labor you dedicated to this important issue and particularly for making me think about our society and how we go about birth not looking into our alternatives and letting a natural experience be in the hands of doctors and a inhumane hospitals. In fact, I'm likely to do a little advocacy myself when others are not aware of mid-wives and birth centers, things of that nature. i come to look at the birth and the way people go about it differently, and how this decision can really impact, even alter someones life. its important to have knowledge on this subject because at one point, birth will come around.Thanks! Talking to you gives me hope about our future as a society!
Sincerely,
Tamiko Orasio
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